In a day of introductory classroom work followed by four days in the field, participants will learned the principles and basic techniques for finding, examining, and evaluating historic crash sites. Completion of the Field School is a requirement to be eligible for selection for TIGHAR expedition teams.

The subject aircraft for the 2013 Field School was Lockheed NC14935. The Northwest Airlines Model 10A Electra iced up and crashed December 18, 1936 near Kellogg, Idaho during an airmail flight from Missoula, Montana to Spokane, Washington. Pilot and copilot died on impact and their bodies were later recovered. There were no passengers aboard. Some of the wreckage was later salvaged but much – and it’s not entirely clear how much – still remains on the site. The wreck is of particular interest to TIGHAR as a rare source of information about Electra structures and how they react under stress.

Previous Years’ Field Schools

Click on the photographs to read about the sites and the surveys.

Loon Lake, Idaho, 2000

Sierra Nevada Hills, California, 2001

Boron, California, 2002

College Park, Maryland, 2005

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